30 days to CAT Plan

Cetking’s 30 days to CAT 2016 Plan Remember 50% of your exam preparation is based on last 30 days. For those who are focused and ambitious, the 30 day study guide plan is great, as long as you have the time to put in. this is an aggressive plan, and you will need to be able to dedicate, on average, 2-3 hours a day. Also, if you are a geometry whiz or a reading comprehension guru, feel free to skip the sections you know you don’t need to review: this guide can be customized to your strengths and weaknesses. Essential Materials: Last year CAT papers Cetking or other coaching class material Atleast 10 – 15 mocks for practice Loads of motivation and time to study Lets divide the preparation into 2 phases, first 15 days and last 2 weeks. Phase 1 30 days to CAT – first 15 days Week 1 & 2 plan Primary Goals: Brush up on quant fundamentals – 10 questions sure shot! Run through all different verbal questions types parajumbles, RC etc to know our accurcy. Check different types of questions coming in CAT exam Secondary Goals: Quant Run through all formulas in Quant as you wil be getting 10 questions based on basic formulas in CAT exam. Go through 3 main chapters of Quant – Geometry, Dirty Quant(Functions, Inequalities) and Arithmetic as they together is more than 70% of the paper. Shortcuts Start using cetking shortcuts (if you are Cetking student) as speed is important part of these topics for quant verbal and DI/LR. you can join our 30 days to CAT program here: courses.cetking.com Verbal Verbal is all about accuracy and practice, complete RC and Critical reasoning in this period so that we can focus on the remaining portion next part. RC 16 questions and Critical Reasoning 8 questions is more than 70% of the CAT syllabus. Logic CAT is all about Logical Puzzles (arrangement sets and other things). Practice arrangement based sets in this phase so that we can do tournament and games based puzzles in the next phase. DI 50% of the DI section of 16 questions ie 8 questions (2 sets of 4 questions each) will be normal calculation based DI not very time consuming or calculation intensive. So run though atleast 20 DI puzzles in next 15 days to get a hang on these topic. Mocks In next 15 days do atleast one mock every 3 days. Making sure you strategies are set and you are well verse with the CAT paper pattern. Phase 2 30 days to CAT – last 15 days Week 3 & 4 plan Primary Goals: Focus on shortcuts in quant section as speed is the name of the game Focus on practice in verbal DI and Logic section Solve last year CAT papers Secondary Goals: Quant Time to move to shortcuts in quant, Go through remaining main chapters of Quant – Numbers and Algebra as this will complete the full quant CAT syllabus. You now need to revise all topics again so that we are done with everything twice. Shortcuts Complete all cetking shortcuts as speed is important part of these topics for quant verbal and DI/LR. Verbal In verbal go through remaining main topics of verbal – Paragraph based 8 questions (Para Jumbles, Para Completion) and Grammar. This will complete the full Verbal CAT syllabus. You now need to revise all topics again so that we are done with everything twice. Logic CAT is all about Logical Puzzles (arrangement sets and other things). In last phase we practiced arrangement based sets. So now we will do more complicated tournament and games based puzzles. There will be two sets of 4 questions each in CAT exam from Games & Tournament based questions. DI Remaining 50% of the DI section of 16 questions ie 8 questions (2 sets of 4 questions each) will be logic based DI sets. Not at all time consuming or calculation intensive but need more understanding. So run though atleast 20 DI puzzles in next 15 days to get a hang on these topic. Mocks In Last 15 days do atleast one mock every alternate day or maybe 1 mock everyday. Finalise your mock taking strategies. Cetking have launched 30 days to CAT program with shortcuts for all topics with mocks and mock taking strategies. you can check details of the program at courses.cetking.com Remember last days is very crutical and nerve breaking. So remember to Get a good night’s sleep so that can concentrate more on your studies. Good luck… and remember, I’m always just a click away facebook.com/ravgun